When handling bales of hay, always pull, tip the bale towards you, not away. If by chance there was a snake curled up underneath, the bale acts as a barrier and may save you from getting bitten.
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Tip 3
Posted in Tips, tagged handling bales of hay, handling hay, hay and snakes, snakes and hay on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tip 2
Posted in Tips, tagged bran, bran mix, colic, molasses mix, pollard mix, pollard molasses, preventingcolic, prevontion of colic on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For a tasty snack and also a great way to prevent colic by flushing the digestive system, approx once a month mix some molasses (approx 1 soup ladel full) into water (approx 1 litre) and then mix that into some bran or pollard (approx 2 litre ice cream tub) until it’s a nice moist consistency [...]
Tip 1
Posted in Tips, tagged feeding horses, feeding horses in a paddock, paddock feeding horses on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When feeding horses out in a paddock, double or triple the amount of piles of feed/hay per horse. eg: If your feeding three horses have 6 to 9 piles of hay, if four horses have 8 to 12 piles etc and leave good gaps in between. As horses have a natural pecking order, the bossier [...]
